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That has to be the worst webdesign I have seen this week. Not only does it require JS to show anything but a blank page but it displays an "inner-window" window. Dear web gods, why?

http://i.imgur.com/qBHLCac.png



FWIW, Google Cache can serve you HTML for these Dynamic Views blogs; just prefix the URL with https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:

e.g. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

Incidentally, it's the only place you can get HTML for these blogs, and I suspect that Blogspot has special-cased Googlebot to give it HTML instead a pile of JavaScript.

For convenience, I have this bookmarklet bound to my 'c' keyword in Firefox:

  javascript:(function(){window.open('https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:'+(''+window.location));})();


Thanks for the tip. I'm using NoScript/HTTPSwitchboard and have long been frustrated by javascript being required to show even simple posts on blogspot.


I still use Blogspot because moving my posts to another platform would mean too much time lost. I prefer to invest this time in hacking and writing articles. But yes, the desktop experience is a little awful. However, it's the only theme that works flawless on tablets and mobile devices.




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